I fixed it with a combination of sysctl and limit. Works great.
Thanks for the ktrace hint.

Regards
Nigel

On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 11:10:22AM -0600, Nigel Reed wrote:
> Ahh, Useful. Thanks Christos. I see the problem.
> 
>  26409 compile  RET   open -1 errno -24 Too many open files
> 
> My next problem is to find out how to increase the number of
> open files. I'm guessing this is a NetBSD rather than Linux
> problem?